Who doesn’t love a good cheesecake? Some people in Lewis County are taking big to the next level.

Now, 15,000 pounds later, a world record was broken.

What You Need To Know

  • Lowville and Kraft Heinz unveiled a 15,000 lb. cheesecake Saturday during the annual Cream Cheese Festival

  • The cake was approved by Guinness World Records as the world's largest on Saturday

  • A Russian company had owned the record since 2017

  • The Russian company had taken the record from Kraft, which had previously broken the record in 2013 during the festival

“Today in Lowville, New York, USA, you had a measurement of 15,008. It's a new Guinness World Record!” Guinness adjudicator Michael Empric announced.

It was a celebration in Lowville on Saturday. The world record for the largest cheesecake is back home.

“It is fantastic," said Christina Pomerville, Kraft Heinz Lowville interim plant manager. "The fact that it's over 15,000 will hopefully make it very difficult for anyone to take the title away from us again."

Pomerville says "again" because at this very cream cheese festival, Kraft built what was then unheard of 6,900-pound cheesecake. Guinness World Records deemed it the largest ever.

“We were proud to be the holder of the world record,” Pomerville said.

However, quietly — at least here, anyway — four years later, in 2017, a Russian company would make one bigger.

As long as they beat it by a pound or a kilogram, they'll achieve a new Guinness World Record title,” Empric said.

Empric was the adjudicator in Lowville in 2013. He made his way back to Lowville 11 years later.

“It's a huge moment for them, you know, to set this record,” he added.

It was a record cake Kraft Heinz team members made on Friday. It not only has 13,000 pounds of Philadelphia ready-to-eat cheesecake, but more than 800 pounds of graham cracker crumbs, more than 300 pounds of sugar and more than 100 pounds of butter.

“We've been talking to people and there's people from all over that have come just because of the cheesecake, right? They want to see it. They want to hear about it,” Pomerville said.

And they want to taste it.

Believe it or not, one of the rules of being designated a world record for the largest cheesecake is that it's edible and it has to be served the day that award is given, whether it be to a charity or a food pantry or in this case, the Cream Cheese Festival.

“It's delicious. It definitely is. Yeah, with strawberries,” Kelly Roberts of Florida and her mother said.

After all, that's what this is all about.

Kraft, which provides about 500 jobs to Lowville, says it was also nice to help people have some fun after dealing with two major flooding events this summer.